Quotes About Discipline

Willpower is itself a biological phenomenon. You can change your life, and yourself, through effort and discipline—but you have whatever capacity for effort and discipline you have in this moment, and not a scintilla more (or less). You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.

There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn't the same as investigating the nature of one's mind absent any doctrinal assumptions.

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.